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Leadership

President Antoinette Ford encourage seniors to stay actively involved with their communities, young people, and people of differing cultures.

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Hanami Festival

Double Nickels recently celebrated the Hanami Festival. Join us at our next festival this fall.

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Double Nickels' Trek to Hear from the Gullah

Trek to hear from the Native Islanders of Hilton Head Island, whose ancestors established the first Freedmen's town in the country.

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Partnership with the Armed Forces Retirement Home

We partner with the AFRH to host events and performances. Learn more and join us at our next event.

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Event at the Corcoran

Double Nickels Delivers True Story to Writers and Spectators at the Corcoran Gallery of Art

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Stories

First Tour in Europe

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We crossed the Atlantic aboard the Military Sea Transport Service vessel, General William O. Darby, en route to Casablanca. After a brief tour of Casa, our next stop was Southampton where I received shore liberty. Well, I was a corporal along with being the assistant 1st Sergeant on board. It lent some privilege after all.

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Finding Me

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It seems that everyday now someone will ask me why I founded the Double Nickels? How do you create theatre from reminiscences? Or they will ask some version of a similar question. The answer for me is simple. I am sincerely passionate about wanting to know….period. It is the journey that I find so compelling

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Ten Grains of Rice

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Grandpop Taylor. He was the meanest, stingiest man I ever knew. When my grandmother Taylor died, my grandfather left my eight year old uncle Timothy in the house by himself and went to live with his girlfriend. I’m not lyin’. The way we found out was that my Dad, Timothy’s older brother, went by my

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